I'm with Stupid

I just finished reading the debut by Elaine Szewczyk, I'm with Stupid. (Seriously, how do you pronounce her name? I know the "y" can act as a vowyel but the three consonants before the y?... sheesh)

It's HILARIOUS!!! I haven't laughed so hard from a book since... well since the last book I laughed at (which has been so long I can't even remember what it was!). The novel details the dating misadventures of Kas, the novel's narrator and heroine, specifically, her one-night stand from a South African safari holiday which turned into a disastrous love affair back home at New York. The characters in the book are just larger than life and their interactions provide most of the comedic situations.

Szewczyk also has this ingenious way with words that totally awes me and amuses me at the same time. Eg:

Holy
Toledo,
what
a
fucking
torpedo

(*cough cough* in reference to a certain part of the male anatomy)

"Is coutryside hypenated?" he asks during a song-and-dance sequence.

"Chastity is as great a perversion as libidinousness..." Manuel Sanchez (seriously, this guy is the most unbelievable character ever, in a good way!)

Anyways those are just the two that I remember. There was also the sweet and poignant reflection that Kaz had about her brother that I can totally relate to. Overlooking your siblings (esp younger ones) and then realise later in life that you have missed out so much just by ignorance and end up being total strangers with someone that's suppose to be your family is a sad but truthful observation. Honestly this book gets a 5-star from moi!! Très bien!